GeForce GT 730M vs Radeon R5 Graphics

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	863
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	4.43
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	Spectre SL	GK107
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	17 September 2014 (10 years ago)	20 January 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	256	384
Core clock speed	497 MHz	725 MHz
Boost clock speed	720 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,410 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.952	23.20
Floating-point processing power	0.2545 TFLOPS	0.5568 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	16
TMUs	16	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Bus support	no data	PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	IGP	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	System Shared	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB
Standard memory configuration	no data	DDR3/GDDR5
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	28.8 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support	no data	Up to 3840x2160
LVDS signal support	no data	Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support	no data	Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	no data	Up to 3840x2160
HDMI	-	+
HDCP content protection	-	+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI	-	+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Blu-Ray 3D Support	-	+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	-	+
Optimus	-	+
3D Vision / 3DTV Play	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 API
Shader Model	6.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.1.126
CUDA	-	+

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 September 2014	20 January 2013
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt

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